series:Year Summary

Another year has passed, and it’s time to reflect on what I accomplished, what I learned, and where I’m heading next. 2025 was a year of shipping projects, learning new technologies, and making some significant life changes. Looking Back: 2025 Goals Review My core aims were: Release a working version of Banter Bus by end of January Try to release say 20ish YouTube videos next year Look at making some money from my side projects I successfully completed the first goal, though the other two took a back seat due to changing priorities. With regards to YouTube, I didn’t really find the motivation to make videos. I will likely have another crack at it this year, aiming at creating content with simpler editing which takes less effort. ...

I did one of these last year, and thought why not do another quick year in review. Catch people up with what I’ve been up to. This year was not nearly as transformative as my previous year in terms of changes I made to my workflow. I am still using Nix and NixOS, I am still using Neovim. I moved onto from tmux to zellij mainly because I just like the floating terminal it provides. But other than that, it’s basically the same as the end of last year. ...

For once, I am actually doing a year in review, to go over some of the things I’ve learnt over the last year. Part of the reason is this has been probably my most transformative year since I have been a software engineer. I have become far more terminal development driven, if that is a phrase one can use. What I mean is I changed my development workflow to leverage being in the terminal more. I feel far more productive and efficient than I was at the beginning of the year, for what it’s worth ...